RAII limitations in D?

[Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Thu, 2014-08-21 at 19:22 -0700, Timothee Cour via Digitalmars-d-learn
wrote:
> What would be a good answer to this article?
> http://swiftcoder.wordpress.com/2009/02/18/raii-why-is-it-unique-to-c/
> 
> Especially the part mentioning D:{
> D’s scope keyword, Python’s with statement and C#’s using declaration all
> provide limited RAII, by allowing resources to have a scoped lifetime, but
> none of them readily or cleanly support the clever tricks allowed by C++’s
> combination of smart pointers and RAII, such as returning handles from
> functions, multiple handles in the same scope, or handles held by multiple
> clients.
> }

The author has clearly not actually used Python. There is nothing that C
++ can do with RAII that you cannot do with Python/context managers/with
statement. Nothing.

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